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The first half of this year has been periodically interrupted with news of the DOJ's attempts to obtain journalists' phone and email records. The Trump Administration targeted journalists at CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post while trying to sniff out the sources of White House leaks. This wasn't necessarily uncommon behavior for…

Law enforcement needs probable cause to effect arrests and engage in searches. In most cases, a warrant is also required. It's a bit of paperwork that allows the government to bypass Fourth Amendment protections to serve the greater good, i.e., the invasion of privacy (a search) or the removal of personal freedom (an arrest). For…

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Some news outlets engage in journalism. Others just engage in hype. The latter tend to repeat press releases verbatim, only ask for statements from law enforcement when law enforcement screws up, and otherwise cater to the "if it bleeds, it leads" maxim that has allowed mass media to portray America as a criminal dystopia despite…

Prior to the turn of the century, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a formative decision that helped craft the contours of Section 230 immunity. The case -- Zeran v. America Online -- dealt with a tricky question: whether or not a platform's failure to moderate content (in this case, posts that contained…